Liz Manashil is a feature film writer and director, a distribution consultant for independent films, and the co-host of Making Movies is Hard, a podcast about the trials and tribulations of independent filmmaking.

Bread and Butter (2014)

Speed of Life (2019)

Making Movies is HARD!!! Podcast

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Judith Weston is a sought-after coach and teacher to first-class filmmakers and actors around the world, and has been supporting them with workshops, consultations and books for nearly 40 years. Her first book, Directing Actors, was originally published in 1996 and a 25th Anniversary Edition came out in 2021. Her second book, The Film Director’s Intuition, was published in 2003 and the audiobook version is out now.

Directing Actors - 25th Anniversary Edition: Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television

The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques

The Director Whisperer: Judith Weston Teaches Filmmakers How to Talk to Actors - Vanity Fair

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The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

Carlos Lozada at The New York Times

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Andrew Boryga is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. His debut novel Victim, from Doubleday Books, is out now.

Victim

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Dr. Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT and University College London, and the founder and director of the Affective Brain Lab, a cognitive neuroscience research laboratory dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the human brain. She’s the author of The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others. Her newest book, co-authored with Cass Sunstein is titled Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There.

Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

Affective Brain Lab

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Jonathan Vigliotti is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award–winning CBS News national correspondent and the author of Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America.

Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America

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